[PATCH v3 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp

From: Shakeel Butt

Date: Mon May 25 2026 - 23:41:55 EST


Currently struct obj_stock_pcp stores nr_bytes in an 'unsigned int'
which is 4 bytes on 64-bit machines. Switch the field to uint16_t to
shrink the per-CPU cache.

The kernel supports PAGE_SIZE_4KB, _8KB, _16KB, _32KB, _64KB and
_256KB (see HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_* in arch/Kconfig). After the
PAGE_SIZE-aligned flush in __refill_obj_stock(), the sub-page
remainder fits in uint16_t up through 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE - 1
== U16_MAX, but on 256KiB pages PAGE_SIZE - 1 == 0x3FFFF exceeds
U16_MAX. The accumulator also needs to stay within uint16_t between
page-aligned flushes on 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE itself is
U16_MAX + 1.

Accumulate the new total in an 'unsigned int' local, then on
PAGE_SHIFT <= 16 flush whenever the accumulator would hit U16_MAX;
together with the existing allow_uncharge flush at PAGE_SIZE this
keeps the uint16_t safe.

On configs with PAGE_SHIFT > 16 (PAGE_SIZE_256KB on hexagon and
powerpc 44x, both 32-bit), uint16_t cannot represent the sub-page
remainder. Define obj_stock_bytes_t as 'unsigned int' on those
archs so nr_bytes can hold the full remainder and the normal
page-boundary flush in __refill_obj_stock() and the page extraction
in drain_obj_stock() both work correctly.

The single-cache-line layout target only applies to PAGE_SHIFT <= 16;
those archs are 32-bit embedded and not the optimization target.

Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v2:
- Based on Sashiko's concern regarding archs with 256KiB base pages, added
special handling for such arch and simplify the code overall.
- Updated commit message.
- Have kept the review tags as overall code remains same mostly.

Changes since v1:
- Collected tags
- Rearrange fields of obj_stock_pcp (David Laight)
- Fix comparison operator (Harry)

mm/memcontrol.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 9bee9031171f..8c1b65e6da5d 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2020,8 +2020,17 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct memcg_stock_pcp, memcg_stock) = {

struct obj_stock_pcp {
local_trylock_t lock;
- unsigned int nr_bytes;
struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
+#if PAGE_SHIFT > 16
+ /*
+ * On rare archs with 256KiB base page size (hexagon and powerpc 44x)
+ * keep nr_bytes to unsigned int as uint16_t cannot represent the full
+ * sub-page remainder.
+ */
+ unsigned int nr_bytes;
+#else
+ uint16_t nr_bytes;
+#endif
int16_t node_id;
int nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
int nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
@@ -3334,6 +3343,7 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
bool allow_uncharge)
{
unsigned int nr_pages = 0;
+ unsigned int stock_nr_bytes;

if (!stock) {
nr_pages = nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -3342,21 +3352,24 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
goto out;
}

+ stock_nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes;
if (READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) != objcg) { /* reset if necessary */
drain_obj_stock(stock);
obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
- stock->nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
+ stock_nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
? atomic_xchg(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes, 0) : 0;
WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg, objcg);

allow_uncharge = true; /* Allow uncharge when objcg changes */
}
- stock->nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
+ stock_nr_bytes += nr_bytes;

- if (allow_uncharge && (stock->nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) {
- nr_pages = stock->nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- stock->nr_bytes &= (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+ if ((allow_uncharge && (stock_nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) ||
+ stock_nr_bytes > U16_MAX) {
+ nr_pages = stock_nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ stock_nr_bytes &= (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
}
+ stock->nr_bytes = stock_nr_bytes;

out:
if (nr_pages)
--
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